linux.git/mm/Makefile, branch v2.6.31

Merge branch 'akpm'

2009-06-17T02:50:13+00:00

* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c

mm: consolidate init_mm definition

2009-06-17T02:47:28+00:00

* create mm/init-mm.c, move init_mm there
* remove INIT_MM, initialize init_mm with C99 initializer
* unexport init_mm on all arches:

  init_mm is already unexported on x86.

  One strange place is some OMAP driver (drivers/video/omap/) which
  won't build modular, but it's already wants get_vm_area() export.
  Somebody should look there.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing #includes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Americo Wang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmemcheck: add mm functions

2009-06-15T10:40:03+00:00

With kmemcheck enabled, the slab allocator needs to do this:

1. Tell kmemcheck to allocate the shadow memory which stores the status of
   each byte in the allocation proper, e.g. whether it is initialized or
   uninitialized.
2. Tell kmemcheck which parts of memory that should be marked uninitialized.
   There are actually a few more states, such as "not yet allocated" and
   "recently freed".

If a slab cache is set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, it will never return
memory that can take page faults because of kmemcheck.

If a slab cache is NOT set up using the SLAB_NOTRACK flag, callers can still
request memory with the __GFP_NOTRACK flag. This does not prevent the page
faults from occuring, however, but marks the object in question as being
initialized so that no warnings will ever be produced for this object.

In addition to (and in contrast to) __GFP_NOTRACK, the
__GFP_NOTRACK_FALSE_POSITIVE flag indicates that the allocation should
not be tracked _because_ it would produce a false positive. Their values
are identical, but need not be so in the future (for example, we could now
enable/disable false positives with a config option).

Parts of this patch were contributed by Pekka Enberg but merged for
atomicity.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum

kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak

2009-06-11T16:04:19+00:00

This patch adds a loadable module that deliberately leaks memory. It
is used for testing various memory leaking scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector

2009-06-11T16:04:18+00:00

This patch adds the Kconfig.debug and Makefile entries needed for
building kmemleak into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

generic debug pagealloc

2009-04-01T15:59:13+00:00

CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and
s390.  This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by
filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and
verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages().

This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but
invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and
invalid write access can be detected after a long delay.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

percpu: implement new dynamic percpu allocator

2009-02-20T07:29:08+00:00

Impact: new scalable dynamic percpu allocator which allows dynamic
        percpu areas to be accessed the same way as static ones

Implement scalable dynamic percpu allocator which can be used for both
static and dynamic percpu areas.  This will allow static and dynamic
areas to share faster direct access methods.  This feature is optional
and enabled only when CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is defined by
arch.  Please read comment on top of mm/percpu.c for details.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Andrew Morton

shmem: unify regular and tiny shmem

2009-01-06T23:59:08+00:00

tiny-shmem shares most of its 130 lines of code with shmem and tends to
break when particular bits of shmem get modified.  Unifying saves code and
makes keeping these two in sync much easier.

before:
  14367	    392	     24	  14783	   39bf	mm/shmem.o
    396      72       8     476	    1dc	mm/tiny-shmem.o

after:
  14367	    392	     24	  14783	   39bf	mm/shmem.o
    412	     72       8     492	    1ec	mm/shmem.o tiny

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SLUB: failslab support

2008-12-29T09:27:46+00:00

Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only
available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations]
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

memcg: allocate all page_cgroup at boot

2008-10-20T15:52:39+00:00

Allocate all page_cgroup at boot and remove page_cgroup poitner from
struct page.  This patch adds an interface as

 struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page*)

All FLATMEM/DISCONTIGMEM/SPARSEMEM  and MEMORY_HOTPLUG is supported.

Remove page_cgroup pointer reduces the amount of memory by
 - 4 bytes per PAGE_SIZE.
 - 8 bytes per PAGE_SIZE
if memory controller is disabled. (even if configured.)

On usual 8GB x86-32 server, this saves 8MB of NORMAL_ZONE memory.
On my x86-64 server with 48GB of memory, this saves 96MB of memory.
I think this reduction makes sense.

By pre-allocation, kmalloc/kfree in charge/uncharge are removed.
This means
  - we're not necessary to be afraid of kmalloc faiulre.
    (this can happen because of gfp_mask type.)
  - we can avoid calling kmalloc/kfree.
  - we can avoid allocating tons of small objects which can be fragmented.
  - we can know what amount of memory will be used for this extra-lru handling.

I added printk message as

	"allocated %ld bytes of page_cgroup"
        "please try cgroup_disable=memory option if you don't want"

maybe enough informative for users.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds